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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MARK TWAIN will be fifty-two years of age
In November.
PHIL ARMOUR, the great Chicago pork
king, pays his doctor $1,000 year to keep
him well.
JAMES HENRY, the great-grandson of tho
famous Patrick Henry, is one of the promis.
ing young men Of Tennessee.
IT is stated that Prince Bismarck is con-
cerned in distilling on a large scale. He
owns distilleries at three points.
SIR DINsaAw MANoCKJEE PETIT, Parsee
mill owner, has in twenty years given away
$1,000, 600 for various benevolent purposes.
JAMES s. RICHARDSON, of New Orleans,
the lsrgest cotton planter in the world, has
this year $4,000 acres in cotton and I, 900
acres in corn.
GENERAL BUTLER heads the list of money
making lawyers of the country. His fortune
is estimated at $500, 900, and his annual
practice nets him 100000.
B. FAY MILLS is the boy revivalist of New
England. He has enjoyed great success in
the interior Of Massachusetts,, and now pro.
poses to inaugurate monster revival meet
ing in Boston.
PROF. CHURCH, of Columbia College, New
York, distinguished mining expert, recent
ly entered the service of the Viceroy Of
Cnlid, LII HunS OhanP. ne mas mdue per-
sonal examination Of and full report upon
the interior Chinese copper and silver mines.
The ex-Empress Charlotte, of Mexico, has
of late shown great fondness for the COM
pany Of children. Every morning the two
children of her gardener are brought to her,
and she spends hours with them playing
hide-and-seek, and listening to their songs,
and feels unhappy when they leave.
BRET HARTE makes his home in London at
the house of the Belgian Minister The IA
NOUS authors hair is snow-white and lies in
masses on his forehead. His mustache is not
so white His complexion is forid. He has
not grown especially stout, and were it not
for his hair would look like young man.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

TWENTY States now have Bureaus of Labor
Statistics.
THERE are three successful cooperative
concerns in New York, with a capital OF
100000.
BOYS under fourteen years old are working
in the factories at Fall River, Mass, for
twenty-three cents day.
THE Swedish Government is seriously con-
sidering the proposition to purchase all the
railroads in that Kingdom.
A NATIONAL organization of Hungarians
is being formed throughouttheU United States
to encourage emigration from Hungary to
America.
TWENTY THOUSAND nailmakers Of Worces-
ter and Stafford, England, struck work this
morning for an advance of twenty to thirty
per cent. in wages.
THE Quaker City Cooperative Carpet Com
pany is dead. Alter year Of bright pros,
poets, it has given up the ghost, leaving So
in cash and thirty rags as its assets, with
liabilities amounting to 1000
The seventeenth annual convention of the
Cigarmakers' International Union opened at
Binghamton, n. Y, on the 18th. About POO
delegates, representing unions throughout
the United States and Canada, were present
A CANAL 1000 feet long and 50 feet wide is
to be built along the rapids of the st. Mary's
River, at Sault Ste. Marie, for the purpose of
furnishing, by the use of immense water pow
er, electric power with which to run eleva-
tors, mills, and an endless variety of other
machinery, as well as an electric-light plant.
THE first prosecution in Washington to test
the legality of the boycott was begun re.
ce1 tly by the arrest of nine members Of
Washington Musical Assembly, knights of
Labor. on complaint of Franz Krause. 1t is
alleged that the accused conspired to extort
from Krause, who was leader of band, the
sum of s75, on account of fines a:.dto pre-
vent, by threat, number Of musicians whom
he employed from pursuing their calling.
A UNION meeting of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers was held in Boston
Sunday afternoon for the purpose Of expound-
ing the principles of the Order and inducing
those outside of it to join. Chief Arthur ad-
dressed the meeting and, among other things,
said that strikes were to be discouraged, for
there was no cases when the parties could
be brought together that settlement could
not be agreed upon. In closing he urged the
brothers to be honest, be just and be true to
their employers and they would not fail to
secure suitable recognition.
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LIGHTNING FREAKS.

MRS. OSCAR BROWN, of Fergus Falls,
Mimi, had lust taken her infant from its crib
when lightning struck the house and tore the
crib into fragments.
WHEN lightning struck Baxter Vaughan of
Strother, Mo-, it cut hole like bullet in his
hat, ran around the rim, then down his back
clear to his heels, tearing off in its entire
course a narrow strip of skin, and yet Mr.
Vaughan lives to tell his queer experience.
MORE than 100 children sat during thun.
der storm in room of Green's Academy, at
Albany, Ga. The sliding doors leading to an
other room were open. Suddenly an i'm
mense ball of fire appeared in the neighbor-
ing room, tore the window sashes from their
frames, and threw the weights and splinters
all about, yet not child was injured
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Washington.

A PENSION CHECK that had been raised
from So to S2,450 was received the other day
at the Treasury Department. The forgery
was skillfully executed, but was discovered
by the paying teller of the Treasury.
GOVERNOR Ross, of New Mexico, says in
his annual report to the Secretary of the In
terror that the marked increase Of residents
during the past few years will result in a pop
ulation of 20, 900 by 1870. During the first
half of the fiscal year 1,14l entries of public
lands, aggregating l52, 500 acres, were made.
THE collections from Internal Revenue
during July and August aggregated s20,-
5O,036, an increase Of S1,607 $50 as COM
pared with the first two months of the last
fiscal year.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has prepared
statement of the disposition of public and
Indian lands during the past fiscal year. 1t
appears that the sales entries and selections
Of public land under the various acts of Con-
gress embraced 25,lll 400 acres, and of In
dian lands 746, ,637 acres, making a total of
25.S5S,037 acres. The receipts from the dis
posals of lands aggregate SO, ,7S3, ,922; from
sales Of Indian lands 81, ISL, BOZ, making q
total of s12, $780, ,224. -
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THE MONEY STRINGENCY,
The Treasury Offers to Buy $14,-
100000 of Bonds.

The recent stringency in the money mar
ket, owing to the constant increase in the
United States Treasury's surplus, resulted
in q long conference between the Pres
ident and Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Thompson, followed by the publication Of
the following circular:
On and after this date September 22)
the Government will purchase daily until
October ., 1887, at the office of the Secretary
of the Treasury, to be applied to the sinking
fund, United States ~ per cent bonds Of
1891 and 4 per cent bonds of 1907,
acts of July II, 1870, and January 20, 1871,
upon the following terms: The AZ per
cent bonds will be accepted at one hundred
eight and four-tenths (l0S. y during the above
stated period, and the four per cent bonds
during the remainder of the present month
at one hundred twenty-five 025) and from
October l to October s, 1887, at one hundred
twenty-four Q24), which prices include ac-
crued interest to date of purchase.
The aggregate amount Of both classes of
bonds which will be accepted within the time
above specified is not to exceed sl4 ,OOO, 900.
Offers should state the specific char
acter of the bonds, whether registered
or coupons. No further bids for bonds as
provided in circular No. 80, dated Aug. 3,
1887, will be received after this date. Inter
est due Oct. l, 1887, on United States bonds,
amounting to about Sc, 500, ,00O, will be paid on
the 2Gth instant without rebate.
HUGH S. THOMPSON, Acting Secretary.
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THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
The Places He Will Stop At South
ant. West.

The Places he Will stop At oouIh
ant. West.
The completed arrangements for Mr.. and
Mrs. Cleveland's extended trip South and
West were announced on Wednesday as fol-
lows:
Leave Washington by Pennsylvania Rail-
road Friday, September 80, at 10 A. II.
Arrive at Indianapolis Saturday, October
Leave Indianapolis Saturday, October Lat
Arrive at Terre Eaute Saturday, October
Leave Terre Haute Saturday, Oct. 1, at
Arrive at. St. Louis Saturday, Oct. 1, at
| 12 o'clock midnight.
Leave St. Louis by Chicago and Alton
Railroad Tuesday, Oct. 4, at II P. n.
Arrive at Chicago Wednesday, October D,
Leave Chicago by Chicago and North
western Railroad, Thursday, October b, at
Arrive at Milwaukee Thursday, October
Leave Milwaukee Friday, October z, at
Arrive at Madison Friday, October Z, at
Leave Madison by Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad Monday, October III, az
Arrive at st. Paul Monday, October 10, at
Leave st. Paul Tuesday, October II, at u
Arrive at Minneapolis Tuesday, October
IL. at p. NJ.
Leave Minneapolis by Chicago, St Paul.
Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Tuesday,
October IL, at p N.
Arrive at Omaha Wednesday, October 19,
at II A.. N.
Leave Omaha, by Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, Wednesday, Oct. II, at IL
Arrive at st. Joseph Wednesday, Oct. l2,
Leave St Joseph Wednesday, Oct. 70, at
u Arrive at Kansas City Wednesday, octo-
ber II, at 81 P. n.
Leave Kansas City, by Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Gulf Railroad, Thursday, October
Arrive at Memphis Friday, October IA, at
Leave Memphis, by Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, Saturday, October Is, at
Arrive at Nashville, Saturday, October Is.
Leave Nashville by Nashville, Chatta-
noora and St Louis and Western and Allan
tic Railroad Monday, October II, at II A. N.
Arrive at Atlanta Monday October II, at
l1P.M.
Leave Atlanta Wednesday, October l9, at
10 o'clock midnight
Arrive at Montgomery Thursday, October
90, at s An
Leave Montgomery by Kennesaw and
Western North Carolina routes Thursday,
October 20. at l Pm
Reach Washington Saturday, October %,
at An.
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The Third Days Celebration.

On Saturday. Philadelphia's celebration OF
the Constitutions Centennial came to an emu
with imposing memorial ceremonies From
till 10H A. N. President Cleveland, accom-
panied by Secretaries Bayard and Fairchild,
held public reception in the City Hall. There
was an immense crowd about the Municlpal
building. and during tho time stated con-
tinuouS line of people passed before the Pres
ident To each person who saluted him the
President gave brief handshake, q
smile and word Of greeting Some
of the visitors were anxious to stop
and talk with him, and one hand
somely dressed lady of about thirty-five years
of age threw her arms around his neck and
kissed him. Mrs Lille Devereaux Blake.
Nice-Preslaent for New York of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association, handed the
President q protest against the unjust
Interpretation of the Constitution in
behalf of the women of the United States"
At 1880 sharp the Presidential party left the
building and took carriages for the memorial
meeting in Independence Sauare
me scene IN Independence Square can only
he fitly described as glorious A stand had
been erected across the entire length of the
square, extending out into the open space for
$50 feet Its outermost extension was in the
form of an arch, across which circle Of chairs
was placed for the accommodation of the
Presidential party. A desk draped with the
National colors stood in the centre Of this
arch, from which the speakers of the day
made their addresses. Immediately i'll
front of these were chairs reserved for the
Centennial Commission invited guests,
Judges, Diplomats, Senators, Repre-
sentatives, Governors and officers Of the
Army and Navy. Besides these at least
fifteen thousand people occupied chairs on
the platform, and out from it in tie open
space toward Walnut street the people stood
in a dense mass to the number OF not less
than thirty thousand.
The President arrived at II 80 o'clock with
Mrs. Cleveland, Secretary Bayard, Private
Secretary and Mrs. Lamont, Postmaster.
General Villas and Mrs Villas. The
President and Mrs. Cleveland advanced
into the arch and bowed for half a
minute to the throng: then they took arm
chairs Just in front of the chair in which
George Washington sat when he signed the
Constitution. while the original engrossed
COPY, with all the signatures of the Delegates,
stood upon the chair. A full list of the
eminent Americans who sat near their Chief
Magistrate would include as representative
body of great men as could ever in
the nature of things be gathered in one
place Next Mr. Cleveland sat ex-P President
Hayes, and about him were grouped Hanni-
bal Hamlin. General Sheridan. Chief Justice
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Foreign.

THE British Parliament has adjourned until
November 80.
MEXICO has been celebrating its Independ-
ence Day with great enthusiasm. President
Diaz opened Congress with the usual cere-
monies.
TwENTY-FoUR persons were killed outright
and seventy injured, many fatally, by q
collision between two trains on the Midland
Railway in England. The killed and injured
belonged to party of excursionists on their
way to the Doncaster races.
An immense meteor. described as large as
a railroad car, fell the other night from
cloudess sky near Darlington, Nova Scotia.
Its fall was also seen at Halifax, and was ac-
companied by vivid illumination of the
whole city.
A SEVERE riot between Nationalists and
Orangemen near Belfast, Ireland, was
quel!ei by the police, and ten participants
were arrested.
FIVE persons were drowned in Lake Gen.
eva, Switzerland, by collision between the
boat they were riding in and steamer.
KING WILLIAM has opened the States
General, or Parliament of Holland.
An advertised foot-race ut Lille Bridge,
London, did not come off, and the thousands
of spectators took revenge in partly demol-
ishing two grand stands, large assembly
hall and dancing pavilion, setting fire to
the debris. Four constables were injured
while quelling the riot.
ANTONIO GAYoN, chief of one of the bu-
ureaus of the Mexican War Department., was
fatally wounded by General Rocha in a duel
in the city of Mexico.
OFFICIAL statistics Of the damage done by
the floods in Egypt show that property was
destroyed to the extent of $3.50, ,000 and 500
families were made destitute.
The British Government has begun its
work of suppressing the National League in
Ireland. A proclamation which has been
issued makes it criminal to convoke, hold, or
publish meetings or to do anything in connec-
ton with the League.
A RIOT broke out among the artillerymen
stationed at Hilsa, India because they were
ordered abroad. During the melee many
soldiers and citizens were seriously injured
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

EIGHT consecutive victories is Chicagos
best record this season.
CHARLEsToN's three-fngered catcher,
Nicholas, has caught that town.
TWO hundred and eleven thousand people
saw forty-nine games on the Boston grounds
THE Eostons have played their last cham
pionship game on their own grounds this sea-
son.
DETROIT now leads the League clubs in
batting and fielding. New York leads in
base-running.
DAILY, the one-armed pitcher, has been re-
leased by Cleveland Gills having shown up
we'll in the box.
DIR. MAcoUN, pitcher for the Campbell
ford (Ontariol Club, in a recent baseball
match, broke his arm above the elbow while
delivering the ball.
CLARKsoN, Of the Chicagos, has pitched in
81 winning games, leading all the League
pitchers III that respect. Keefe, Of the New
Yorks, comes next with 90.
The New Yorks won 81 games and lost Is
to tho Western clubs on the home grounds,
the Philadolphias also won II and lost Is, the
Bostons won % and lost II, and the Washing
tons won lG and lost 1S.
IT is estimated that the Washington Club
will really clear about 81, 900 on the season,
and that, too, in spite of counter-local at
fractions. bad weather in the spring and the
uneven play of the team.
THE long lead of the St. Louis club makes
its grip on the American Association cham.
pionship assured. The Detroit Club is in
nearly the same position in the fight for
League championship honors.
The Western clubs on their three trips East
played 139 games, of which they won SO and
lost 80. The Detroits won 90 and lost Is, the
Chicagos won III and lost II, the Pittsburgs
won IA and lost 81, and the Indianapolis won
9 and lost 81.
BEFORE the season opened Mr.. Watrous,
then Managing Director of the Metropoltans,
said that each player of the club who had
batting average of over 800 would get suit
of clothes. Only four Of the players are now
below that figure.
BY the accident which crippled Short-stop
Smith, the Brooklyns have been deprived Of
one of their most valuable fielders and heaviest
batters. In recent game, King, of the st.
Louis, in running to second base, came in
collision with Smith and broke the small
bones Of two fingers
ST. LOUIS leads the Association in club
batting and fielding averages The other
clubs in batting, rank in this order Balti-
more, Brooklyn, Louisville, Cincinnati,
Athletic, Nets and Cleveland In fielding,
next to st. Louis, the clubs stand: Cincinnati,
Brooklyn, Baltimore, Athletic, Louisville,
Cleveland and Nets.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States

THE trial race to see which American yacht
shall compete with the British representative,
the Thistle, was won easily in New York bay
by the Volunteer over the Mayfower, last
years winner in the great international
contest. The Volunteer came in fifteen MIN
utes ahead of the Mayhower, and was there
upon officially selected to race with the
Thistle for the Americas cup.
JOSEPH CILLEY, the oldest eX-United
States Senator and a veteran of the war OF
1872, died at the age of ninety-slx years IN
Nottingham. n. H., a few days since.
A WOMAN, who was a few years ago pri..
admired by everybody, is now washing
dishes in Haverhill (MasS.) restaurant.
Drink and dissipation brought her to this
condition.
E. NJ. CHAMBERLAIN having declined the
Massachusetts, Labor party'S nomination 1or
Governor, his place has been filled by Charles
E. Marks, the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor.
SEVEN persons were injured by collision
on the Elevated Railroad in Brooklyn
A GREAT stringency in the money market
has created considerable excitement in Wall
Street, followed by quite drop in prices of
stocks Appeals have been made by many
business men to the Treasury Department to
adopt more liberal policy in the purchase
of bonds, and thereby give relief.
THE Massachusetts, Democratic State Con-
vention, held in Worcester, nominated the
following ticket: For Governor, Hon: d. B.
Lowering: Lieutenant-G Governor, Waiter f.
Cutting: Secretary Of STATE, John F. Muir
ply; Treasurer, Henry c. Thatcher; Attor-
ey-General, John w. Corcoran, and Audi,
tor, VIM. F. Cook. The platform adopted
endorses President Cleveland's administra-
tion; urges judicious reduction of the tariff
in accordance with Mr.. Cleveland's sugges-
tion to Congress; expresses sympathy with
Ireland, and says all offensive partisans"
should be discharged.
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Thirteen Mistakes.
To yield to immaterial trifes.

To Weld to immaterial trifes.
To look for projection in our own ac'
tions.
TO endeavor to mold all dispositions
alike.
To expect uniformity of opinion in this
world.
To measure the enjoyment of others by
our own.
To expect to be able to understand
everything.
To believe only what our finite minds
can grasp.
To look for judgement and experience
in youth.
Not to make allowances for the in
frmitics of others.
To worry ourselves and others with
what cannot be rcmedied.
TO consider everything impossible that
we cannot perform.
Not to alleviate all that needs alleviat-
ing as far as lies in our power.
1t is a grand mistake to set up your
own standard of right and wrong, and
Judge people accordingly.-B0sto" Ga
9tte.
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South and West

DoM1N1cK NJ. MEssINA, a New Orleans
grocer, perished with his entire family of
wife and four children in fire which de-
stroyed store and dwelling.
FRIENDS of the condemned Chicago Anarch-
lists are getting up petitions in all parts of the
country appealing to Governor Oglesby for
mercy.
A YOUNG Englishman named A. Wv. White
house, while hunting antelope in Wyoming,
mistook his chum, George H Gordan, for a
bear, and shot him dead.
ANDREW JOHNSON, the most notorious
desperate in Kentucky, has committed five
murders, and is not yet twenty-four years
old. Through fear no jury will convict
him.
The jury in the second trial of Fred Munich
rath, Jr., the Sioux City Qa) brewer charged
with the murder of the Rev. Mr. Haddock,
the Prohibition leader, brought in a verdict of
manslaughter. Other trials for participation
In the murder are to follow.
THE George Weber Brewing Co., of Gin
cinnati, has failed with liabilities amounting
to 500, 1000.
PART of freight: train broke loose near
Canton, Dakota, and ran down grade until
it collided with passenger train. Five per-
sons were killed and eight cars completely
demolished
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Waite, Justices Stanley Matthews, BIatch.l
ford and Miller, Senator ingalls,, Senator EysI
warts, Secretary Bayard, Secretary Fairchild
and Postmaster.G General Villas The Governors
Of twenty-eight States were seated in the rear
Of this distinguished group, conversing to-
gether pleasantly. Bishop Henry C. Potter
and Cardinal Gibbons were seated side byI
side .,
The exercises Of the day began with th6I
singing Of an opening chorus BY 1000 chill
dren. Then Bishop Potter lead in prayer,
after which Chairman Kassin reviewed the
work Of the Centennial Commission. At the|
conclusion Of Mr.. Kasson's address small
chorus sang "Appeal to Truth" (by Schiller
Medelssohn) with beautiful effect Mr..
Kasson then escorted the President to the
speakers rostrunl, and at II :55 he began his1
address, which was received with applause
His enunciation was clear and perfect, and
his voice rang out audibly to the thousands
of ears.
At the conclusion Of the Presidents adj
dress, which lasted about ten minutes. the
oration Of the day was delivered by Justice
Samuel F. Miller, Of the United States Su-1
preme Court. At its conclusion the band
struck up Hail Columbia as an accompanf-
ment to the chorus Of z, 900 voices. The new
words by Oliver Wendell Holmes were used.
The new National Hymn, which was con-
tributed by F. Marion Crawford. was then
recited by Professor Murdoch, with chorus
of two hundred mems voices. Cardinal Glib
bons followed in prayer, and next the grand
chorus sang the "Star Spangled Banner, . to-
the accompaniment of the Marine band. An
impressive benediction was pronounced by
the Rev. Jere. Witherspoon, Of the Cumber.
Land Presbyterian Church Of Nashville, and
then Professor Sousa. of the Marine band
raiseu MS DaUon as Jne signal for his musicians
to end the exercises by rendering march Of I
their own composition.
A banquet given by the Hibernian Society
in the afternoon was attended by President
Cleveland, who made a short address, and
many other noted people. An entertainment
was also given in the afternoon in Mrs Cleye-
lands honor by Mr.. George W. Childs athisI
country seat. In the evening the celebration
ended with grand banquet in the
Academy Of Music, rendered to the
President by the University of Penn
sylvania, the American Philosophical So:ie>,
ty, the College Of Physicians, the, Law
Academy, the Historical Society, the Franklin
Institute, the Academy Of Fine Arts and the,
Academy Of Natural Sciences. The Prezt-
dent responded to the toast in his honor, the
other speakers being Senator Ingalls,, Gov
ernor Lee, of Virginia, Charles Francis
Adams, General Sherman, Admiral Luce, Sir
Lyon Playfair, of England, Marquis de Cham
bran, Of France, Andrew D. White and Mr.
kaSSOn. o.. .sf5ssf3ss